[asdf-devel] ASDF test-op question

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Robert Goldman writes:

> Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:
>> Robert Goldman writes:
>> 
>>> 2.  Returning a single operation isn't enough, is it?  For example, if I
>>> have system X, with sub-systems A, B, and C, I may be testing A, B, and
>>> C, so my traversal would have to gather up the three subsidiary test-op
>>> entities and either package them into the parent test-op object, or rip
>>> the test results out of them and push them into the parent test-op
>>> object.  I don't believe the plan-then-execute logic of ASDF makes this
>>> easy, but I may be wrong.
>> 
>> Does performing TEST-OP on a sytem really result in testing all the
>> system's dependencies? Or did you mean something else?
>
> We often have large structured systems where testing system X is done by
> testing subsidiary systems A, B, and C that X depends on.
>
> Consider, for example, if one were to write a test-op for CLSQL.  One
> might then have subsidiary systems for the various DB backends, and one
> would have the test-op for CLSQL run the test-op on each backend (or
> some subset of the backends that are turned on).

So CLSQL's method on TEST-OP should perform tests on each backend and
then merge the results of the subsystems into one result, shouldn't it?

  -T.